City Dionysia Festival

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City Dionysia Festival By Nadia, Clara, Ryan, and Jacob

What was City Dionysia? Festival in Ancient Athens honoring the god of wine, Dionysus Attracted businessman who would come with the sole purpose to trade Festivities meant to impress strangers with the wealth of the city and to celebrate theater To start off the festival, there was a religious procession where a statue of Dionysus was carried throughout the city Central events were performances of dramatic works Playwrights competed for first place prize of having the best play http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/lysistrata

Connection to Lysistrata Comedies performed after 487 BC Lysistrata performed in 411 BC in Athens Most likely at City Dionysia Aristophanes wrote many popular comedies, many of which won at festivals like City Dionysia

Past The origin of all Greek drama Festival held in March in concurrence with the flowering season of grapes for wine (symbol for birth). Six-day spring event Most important festival in the ancient world because it combined theatre, arts, dance, and it brings the community together being that people from all over Greece came to watch the event.

Present Many theatre programs in universities have their own version of City Dionysia across the U.S. Today the festival is seen more as a way to expose people to the culture of Greek theatre Followers of Hellenism still celebrate this festival as a holliday Modern award shows such as the Oscars, mock political issues and figures just as playwrights in City Dionysia did

What it was like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxLtN4lsd28&t=10s

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